Category Archives: Academia

Dershowitz: the Ultimate JAPCAT

JAPCATs don’t get any bigger than Alan Dershowitz. He’s not liking the bed he’s helped make, now that it means he and his ilk also get tarred as ‘racist’ and all the rest. Regarding the blooming BLM movement: [W]hile many … Continue reading

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The New Intolerance of Student Activism

As the momentum and inertia of political correctness storms college campuses, the natural trajectory of this infantilizing of college student bodies is for the Left to eat its own. While it’s glorious to see this happen on the surreal campuses … Continue reading

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BLM’s Victory at Univ of Missouri

BLM-like activists, fueled by mega-doses of P.C. (“safe spaces! microaggressions!”) are feeling newly empowered, have succeeded in getting both the President of the University of Missouri, Tim Wolfe, and the school’s Chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, to resign. Among the “offenses” … Continue reading

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U.S. Constitution as ‘Trigger’

James O’Keefe, the underrated inheritor of Andrew Breitbart’s mantle of conservative guerrilla activism, has another great one. From CampusReform (hat tip: AmRen): Administrators at Vassar College agreed to personally shred a pocket Constitution after an undercover reporter posing as a … Continue reading

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Looking Anti-White Academics in the Face

The JYT’s series called ‘The Stone’ are philosophical ruminations (or, sometimes, pseudo-philosophical ruminations) about things. The current column is titled “Looking ‘White’ In the Face“. Oh boy… It features a discussion between white, leftwing, postmodernist, Syracuse/Villanova philosophy professor John Caputo … Continue reading

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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Forced to Resign

Here is but the latest victim of the vicissitudes of an increasingly institutionalized Political Correctness: LONDON (AP) — A week ago, Tim Hunt was a well-known Nobel Prize winner who was promoting science education throughout Europe and the world. Today … Continue reading

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BU Prof vs. Whites = Nothing to See Here

From the vaunted halls of ‘African American Studies’ in academia: Critics say a newly-hired Boston University professor has crossed the line with recent tweets bashing whites, but the school says it’s simply free speech. “White masculinity isn’t a problem for … Continue reading

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“Reading Racist Literature”

The New Yorker gives another airing to ‘triggers’ and ‘microaggressions’, this one being penned by an English professor of Turkish descent (“Reading Racist Literature“): Of the many passages that gave me pause when I first read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” in … Continue reading

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JAPCAT

As has been noted here previously, there is a genuine niche journalistic phenomenon of the past year, wherein progressive Jewish liberals, when they themselves find themselves on the receiving end of Politically Correct fiats, begin to question such Political Correctness. … Continue reading

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On The War Against Scary Ideas

The rate at which Jewish liberals – longtime proponents of political correctness — are now suddenly construing political correctness as a bit of a problem (once it hits a little too close to home) is now a bona fide journalistic … Continue reading

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